How to analyse your own games?
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The one thing I find for me is having to justify every single move and justify your thought process. If you can't justify it, then you're not really paying attention to the board or anything. You're just reacting. You'll start to see patterns that cause you to lose such as attacking before you're developed, trading too quickly and then losing at end game, being too passive and playing 'non moves'. Typically most players start to notice when something goes bad and why something goes bad. From there it's a matter of thinking differently.
yup790 wrote:
People repeatedly say, to improve you need to analyse your own games and that you should do it OTB, don't just let an engine run. However, how do I do this? I don't know where I went wrong, why I went wrong etc.
Thank you
I have analysed my own games in the following thread:
I think I learnt how to play with feeling, with heart - play with ART !
I also created The Brain Fry Attack - you can see it from the page 60 to the end.
From your games, your most recent loss, you play too aggressively, you ignore your opponent's moves because something looks clever. (Bb5 attacking the queen). You are not calculating fully. Many of those moves you needed to only calculate one move ahead to see what he was doing.
You cannot play good chess without genuinely trying
Bg5 sorry
yup790 wrote:
People repeatedly say, to improve you need to analyse your own games and that you should do it OTB, don't just let an engine run. However, how do I do this? I don't know where I went wrong, why I went wrong etc.
Thank you
Wow, people REALLY missed the question here.
Yup790, if you absolutely don't know what went wrong, you should try to learn more positional play. For example, learn that pieces usually are stronger in the center. Or that bishops are stronger on an open board. You can also run an engine to specifically look for blunders. This way, you can learn where you went wrong.
To do analysis by hand, you have to start from a certain point and evaluate the quality of your moves. Did you play well? Yes? No? Why? If not, how can you play differently, and how can your opponent respond? This way, you'll be able to come up with good strategies.
People repeatedly say, to improve you need to analyse your own games and that you should do it OTB, don't just let an engine run. However, how do I do this? I don't know where I went wrong, why I went wrong etc.
Thank you